Percy Morales Biology 160 Return of the Whoop! The resurgence of Pertussis Part I 1. The illness is transmitted from one person to another through aerosol droplets. It begins as a mild respiratory infection‚ progresses to a cough‚ develops into a paroxysms of cough (whoop) before symptoms wane over weeks to months (duration is typically 6 – 10 weeks). Some symptoms include only sneezing‚ low fever‚ and slight cough and then within a several days you develop the whooping. The mechanism is
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Black settlement houses as well as black churches served as centers for the community‚ offering classes‚ forums‚ and lectures. Middle class black men and women formed literary societies‚ which not only brought in speakers and held discussions‚ but also provided training for both men and women in many different aspects of community life and social activism. Beginning around 1890‚ black women began to speak out on various social justice topics. Women such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper spoke at the
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Aurora Textile Company Inc Case Study Finance 450 I. Recommendations Aurora Textile Company is currently not in very good financial situation. Based on calculations that I made for the capital budgeting‚ my recommendation is to buy the new Zinser machine. After computing the NPV for the project it came out to be $10‚160‚579 over the period of 10 years. According on the analysis of the CFO of the company‚ Zinser would produce a finer- quality yarn that would be used for higher quality and higher
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Black Like Me‚ a movie in which a white reporter named John Howard Griffin goes under extensive treatments to make his skin darker‚ dark enough to be mistaken as black. While in the south as an apparent black man‚ Griffin slowly degrades from an enthusiastic reporter excited to perform research about black life in the south to a man ashamed to be a white man. Over the course of the movie‚ Griffin shifts from pride to self-hate. Once Griffin spends some time in the southern United States he sees the
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Dubbed “Operation Aurora” by McAfee‚ the attack targeted specific high profile corporations to obtain valuable intellectual property. Google‚ Yahoo‚ Juniper Networks and Adobe Systems were also among the victims of this highly coordinated cyber heist. By manipulating computer codes the attackers were able to exploit the Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to gain access and obtain valuable sensitive information from over thirty high profile companies. Operation Aurora proves that the world
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Zadie Smith’s “The Girl with Bangs” is a story about concealment and symbolism. Through the narrator’s subtle imagery the story illuminates the misbeliefs the narrator has when it comes to their attraction for Charlotte and blindness towards her faults. Ultimately‚ the story suggests that Charlotte’s bangs act as a; concealer of her faults and as a symbol of perfection which increases the narrators desire for her‚ however‚ when the narrator realizes that Charlotte is who she thought she was the allure
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the United States. For most parents‚ living the American dream is being able to provide the basic human needs for their children such as food‚ clothing‚ and proper education. According to U.S Department of Agriculture (2014)‚ “49 million people in America lived in household struggling to find enough food to eat.” Unfortunately‚ millions of children struggle to sleep at night because they lack food. In addition‚ a person’s race‚ class and the environment where one lives often places restrictions on
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Alexandra Bobet HIST 3119 Spring 2013 Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge‚ Consciousness‚ and the Politics of Empowerment (review) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge‚ Consciousness‚ and the Politics of Empowerment. Ed. By Patricia Hill Collins. (New York: Routledge‚ 2000. ii‚ 336 pp. Cloth‚ $128.28‚ ISBN 0-415-92483-9. Paper‚ $26.21‚ 0-415-92484-7.) Patricia Hill Collins’s work‚ Black Feminist Thought seeks to center Black Women into intersectionalist thought‚ addressing the power struggles that
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dollars. Luckily‚ there are many organizations dedicated to ending world hunger and hunger in America. A couple of these organizations are Action Against Hunger and Feeding America. Action Against Hunger is dedicated to ending hunger through the prevention‚ detection‚ and treatment of malnutrition and helping war torn countries and areas of natural disaster. Feeding America is the #1 charity in America. Their mission is to develop a nationwide network of foodbanks providing food to the
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Education of a child starts from the family and mother is the first teacher. But‚ the irony in India is that although the deity of education is a female i.e. Goddess Saraswati according to the Hinduism‚ innumerable number of women are illiterate. They are not remaining uneducated by their own wish but they are being forbidden from receiving education because of the patriarchal families in our society. In most of the families the birth of a girl child is not desired and if accepted they are thought
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